Search results for “katherine boo” Showing 48 results How Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the “troubled teen industry” Aviv scoured court records, social media and personal journals to reveal the abuses of a system of unregulated Christian boarding schools January 6, 2022 Reporting through privacy and pain to expose the scandal of Black amputations National Magazine Award winner Lizzie Presser documents the discrimination that leaves Black diabetes patients without easy and affordable care September 15, 2021 Wisdom from Melissa Fay Greene about deep reporting on sensitive subjects If the first rule of nonfiction is “write what you know,” then Melissa Fay Greene has embraced this principle like few others.She has spent her career chronicling the interior lives… September 23, 2020 Extraordinary access: A reporter follows a police officer on a mental health call The street actions rolling through American cities have aimed a spotlight on police. Sometimes the light is harsh: police seen as militarized enforcers who act with impunity in a culture… August 11, 2020 Gratitude Notes (#10) Editor’s note: This month, we bring you brief reminders from pros around the world about what or who helped them forward in their careers.Until I read “The Good Girls Revolt,”… December 11, 2019 Shining light on a “shadow” special-ed program in the Georgia public schools Editor’s note: All photos are courtesy of LaToya Ruby Frazier and Gavin Brown’s enterprise for the New Yorker. The images cannot be reused without consent or permission. New Yorker writer Rachel… January 22, 2019 For the New Year, a little bit of hope and a little bit of help Friends sometimes tell me to take off my rose-colored spectacles, but I was determined to start out 2018 with a bit of inspiration on Storyboard — from some of our… January 5, 2018 Start 2018 out right with some literary journalism conferences and workshops The Power of Narrative: Telling True Stories in Turbulent TimesMarch 23-25Boston UniversityBoston, MassachusettsIt looks like the longest-running narrative journalism conference is making a point of spotlighting great female journalists and… January 4, 2018 Some legends of longform on the stories we need next As audience development editor at Longreads, it’s my job to encourage readers to find and share unforgettable stories. Stories that help us understand this world. Stories that imagine a better… January 2, 2018 Jack Hitt on the birth of live-action TV news in “What Goes Up” When Jack Hitt got an assignment to write about Jerry Foster, a daredevil helicopter pilot who worked for a TV station in Phoenix in the ’70s and ’80s, he thought… December 12, 2017 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next
